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The efficacy of pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (Fansidar®) in the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kenyan children

✍ Scribed by B.R. Ogutu; B.L. Smoak; R.W. Nduati; D.A. Mbori-Ngacha; F. Mwathe; G.D. Shanks


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
294 KB
Volume
94
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9203

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